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Court proceedings
Court proceedings

Making sure that litigants without lawyers feel they are getting a fair hearing – even the ones who deny the right of the court to judge them – has never been easy for judges. But our informal poll of NJ...

Judges think they know how to deal with self-represented litigants

Making sure that litigants without lawyers feel they are getting a fair hearing – even the ones who deny the right of the court to judge them – has never been easy for judges. But our informal poll of NJ...

ChatGPT and OpenAI
ChatGPT and OpenAI

Chatbots that can answer questions and write legal briefs? Three-quarters of judges responding to our survey say they have never tried the technology. That doesn’t mean they don’t have strong opinions...

Most judges haven’t tried ChatGPT, and they aren’t impressed

Chatbots that can answer questions and write legal briefs? Three-quarters of judges responding to our survey say they have never tried the technology. That doesn’t mean they don’t have strong opinions...

United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, USA.
United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC, USA.

Last year a Gallup poll found that only 1 in 4 American adults had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the Supreme Court of the United States. Among judges, we found the current figur...

Of judges who responded to our poll, most expressed very little or only some confidence in Supreme Court

Last year a Gallup poll found that only 1 in 4 American adults had “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the Supreme Court of the United States. Among judges, we found the current figur...

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